edoardo catemario brings music and history to the wsgc
TRANSCRIPT
A recital given by internationally renowned
Italian guitarist Edoardo Catemario was
welcomed by a packed Regis Recital Hall,
Sudley Road, on Saturday 28th March. Organisers
from the Sussex Guitar Club were delighted to see
people coming from all around Sussex and
Hampshire to attend the concert, including many
members of the Club, students, teachers and
Friends of the Regis School of Music, local
residents and no less than the Mayor of Bognor
Regis, Tony Gardiner.
Catemario, originally from Naples, has
established a reputation as concert virtuoso and
Professor of music
and has held master
classes in Spain,
France, Italy and
Austria. He regularly
collaborates with
Salzburg’s
Mozarteum where he
teaches during the
Summer Academy.
He gave his first
recital at the age of 11
and studied with Salvatore Canino, Antino Pedata.
Jose’ Tomas, Stefano Aruta and Maria Luisa
Anido, amongst others.
Award winner in some of the most important
European guitar competitions, including 1st prize at
the ‘Andreas Segovia’ contest of Almunecar in
Granada in 1991, he has performed across Europe,
The United States and South America in concert
venues such as the Wiener Musikverein (Vienna),
the Auditorio Nacional de Musica (Madrid), the
Royal Academy of Music (London), Carnagie Hall
(New York), Cite’ de la Musique (Paris) and the
Teatro Coliseo (Buenos Aires).
Catemario possesses a rare combination of
technique and musicality in the purest sense of the
term. He entertained the audience at the Bognor
Regis Recital Hall with a programme of music
ranging from Baroque to XX century, from
Scarlatti and J S Bach to Tarrega, Teresa de
Rogatis and Catemario himself, played on three
different guitars: an original Torres of 1864, a
replica by James Westbrook – who was present in
the audience – and a Francisco Simplicio of 1922.
He gave not one but three encores, including a
Neapolitan song and the famous El Colibri (the
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Hummingbird) by Sagreras.
The intimate setting of the Regis Recital
Hall contributed to the familiar atmosphere and
great interaction with the audience, who enjoyed
short yet informative introductions to the pieces,
amusing anecdotes and a brief explanation of the
links between Greek and Neapolitan music.
Catemario stayed after the concert to meet
the audience, sign CD covers and programmes and
take photographs despite having to board an early
international flight from Gatwick the following
morning.
Michela Cocolin
Sasha, Pablo Requena, Edoardo,
James Westbrook & George Thomas Edoardo & Michela Cocolin
Moyria, Terry, Edoardo & Tony Gardiner,
Mayor of Bognor Regis Edoardo with Daphne Snocken
Edoardo with his 1922 Simplicio Linda tries James’s Torres replica
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T his was a first time visit to our club by the
outstanding Neapolitan guitarist Edoardo
Catemario. Guitar historian Professor James
Westbrook, who was in the audience loaned Edoardo
his 1864 Torres guitar and for comparison Edoardo
also played on a recent replica of this instrument
which James had made. The sound from these
guitars was truly warm, responsive and romantic, but
make no mistake much of the sound quality is down
to the performer as well. In addition to these two
small guitars, Edoardo also played his favourite
1922 Francisco Simplicio guitar which despite its
age sounded every bit as well as any modern guitar.
It could be both loud when required, produced
wonderful harmonics and could be sweet or
aggressive as demanded by Edoardo. It is interesting
to note that the earlier guitars preceded the invention
of nylon and would have used gut for the treble
strings and silk wound with wire for the bass strings.
The club was very pleased to welcome the
mayor of Bognor Regis, Councillor Tony Gardiner
to the concert. Tony is very supportive of our club
and comes to many of our concerts. Other notable
dignitaries in the audience included virtuoso guitarist
Paul Gregory. The make up of the audience was
truly international for this most interesting of
concerts – we had representatives from Japan (Taro
Takeuchi), Spain (member and Luthier Pablo
Requeno), North Carolina (George Thomas) and
even Italy (Michela Cocolin).
The concert began with pieces played on the
original 1864 Torres which despite its age and size
still produced a wonderful sound thanks to Edoardo.
We heard a Sor Study and Maria and Marieta by
Tarrega. Edoardo then switched to the replica Torres
and we heard another Sor Study which again
sounded so sweet. For the rest of the concert
Edoardo played his trusty 1922 Simplicio guitar. The
audience listened intently to a Bach Fugue and two
pieces by Albeniz – Capriccio Catalan and the
Torre Bermeja. All were played with a great sense of
musicality which the audience thoroughly enjoyed
judging by the rapturous applause.
The second half began with two Scarlatti
Sonatas. Edoardo was able to recreate the early
keyboard sounds with impossibly fast clean trills.
This was followed by a Sonatina by Teresa De
Rogatis. Edoardo explained that she was a child
prodigy who played the piano at the age of just two
years in 1905. By the time she was five years old she
was singing arias from memory and at 29 years of
age she was conducting orchestras (an extremely
rare event for a woman in 1929). She wrote the
Sonatina as homage to her father who was a guitarist
yet it was too difficult for him to play! Seeing the
finger gymnastics required to play such a piece it is
not surprising he could not play it. The Sonatina
required a whole range of abilities – some sections
were fff, others quiet, dreamy and romantic and yet
others extremely fast but still very fluent. I had never
heard of this piece nor the composer before but it
was immediately likeable. The final piece of the
evening was Edoardo’s arrangement of Amato’s Lo
Cunto di Partenope. This was based on an 18th
Century Neapolitan piece originally written for four
hands which Edoardo arranged for solo guitar. Again
this was a new piece to most of us, but again
immediately enjoyable. Edoardo was able to produce
so many different tones from his guitar. He could
demonstrate a crisp lively response, a very loud
response and furthermore, the instrument was still
able to take percussive effects despite being nearly
100 years old.
The audience clearly did not want Edoardo to
stop as they applauded so loudly and for such a long
time. We were treated to no less than three encores –
Tarrega’s beautiful Capriccio Arabe which was
followed by Sagreras’s El Colibi (The Humming
Bird). Surely no one else can play tremolos that
accurately and fast to capture the flight of a
humming bird. Finally, a surprise ‘bonus track’ for
everyone as Edoardo sang and played an old
Neapolitan love song – Canzone Appassiunata. This
was sung so well with such emotion, and was a most
enjoyable way to end such a wonderful concert.
Edoardo explained later that these old Neapolitan
songs are in serious danger of becoming extinct
since there is now only one singer who performs
them. He is hoping in the future to produce a cd of
his singing with guitar and I am sure everyone will
agree such a disk will be eagerly sought by
everyone.
We were very fortunate to be able to secure
Edoardo to come and play for us – this was the final
concert of his four week tour. Early on the Sunday
morning he set out on a ten hour journey home after
having less than four hours sleep. I hope he managed
to sleep well on the aeroplane. We most certainly
must try to get Edoardo back again to give another
concert.
Edoardo Catemario Concert
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The 60th Chichester Festival of Music, Dance & Speech 2015 saw the 60th Anniversary of this Chichester
Festival. The guitar section of the festival was
well represented with 80 entrants in 24 classes for
the under 18’s and 43 entrants in 13 classes for the
adults. Helen Sanderson was the adjudicator for
the under 18s and Mark Ashford the adjudicator
for the adults. Each year sees a marked
improvement in performances and somehow the
festivals become less formal, more enjoyable and
more fun with each passing year. This is a good
thing since it helps to relax the performers.
Helen Sanderson (under 18s)
Helen is well known to the club as both an
adjudicator and a performer. Since its launch in
2007, she has been Director of the World Youth
Guitar Festival for 8-18 year olds held biennially
in Cheltenham where many of our young club
members have been inspired.
Although possibly difficult for youngsters
to grow their fingernails, Helen could not over-
emphasise the use of nails for opening up a palette
of tonal colours. They overcome the fluffy sound
of flesh striking the strings and give sparkle to a
Editor’s Piece
A s always, time seems to fly by faster than
ever at this time of the year. We are nearly
half way through 2015 and yet it seems
only last week we celebrated the New Year. We
have had three superb guitar concerts with the final
concert of our season coming up shortly. Also try to
get along to our two Festival of Chichester events in
June and July. The 60th anniversary of the
Chichester Festival of Music, Dance and Speech
was well supported by guitarists and everyone who
took part came away the better for having
participated.
Many thanks to Michela Cocolin who kindly
wrote a review of Edoardo Catemario’s wonderful
concert. Please send me any articles or reviews that
you would like to be published (contact details on
last page).
Youngsters Play at Bognor Regis Music Club
E very February the Bognor Regis Music
Club invite Sasha and Nina to showcase
some talented young musicians from the
Regis School of Music and to give a concert. These
events are always extremely popular and this year
the Music Room - just down the road at 2, Sudley
Rd – was full to capacity.
We heard some amazing performances from
youngsters aged from just 8 years and above. The
piano, violin and cello were featured and of course
the guitar was well represented thanks to our
members Rebecca Allday, Zoe Barnett, William
Rumsey and Victor Smith. All played very popular
guitar pieces which the audience immediately
enjoyed. Rebecca played Lagrima and Adelita by
Tarrega and Richard Rogers Blue Moon. Zoe played
a Fantasia by Weiss, Prelude no. 1 by Villa Lobos
and Alborado by Tarrega. We heard Victor play
Spanish Dance no. 5 by Granados and Se Ela
Perguntar by Reis. William Rumsey gave us
Pernambuco’s Sound of Bells and he finished the
evening with a cracking duet with Sasha - Anido’s
Argentine Melody.
All the pieces were very well executed and
showed a maturity in the playing that would not be
expected in performers so young. As Sasha pointed
out, many of the youngsters had been up at 6:00am
to take a train to one of the London Junior Music
Colleges. They then did a full day’s exhausting
studies, came back and gave a performance straight
after alighting from the train. Now that is stamina!
It is easy to take such outstanding
performances for granted, but it was interesting
watching the general audience reaction as they are
not used to such exemplary performances from
those so young. The thunderous applause was an
indication of how much the audience were
repeatedly overwhelmed. Well done everyone who
played at the concert and well done Sasha and Nina
in promoting such an enjoyable evening.
TW
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performance. Unfortunately there is no way round
this – if you are to play classical guitar well, then
you will need fingernails.
Helen gave advice on choosing pieces to
play. Remember you are showcasing yourself and it
pays to play contrasting pieces which can show off
your versatility. The word ‘study’ is quite
uninspiring, but that does not mean the piece has to
be played without emotion. Think about what
feature of the guitar the study is trying to bring out.
As with all music, try to fit a story to the piece.
Some guitar music may be an arrangement of a
song. Listen to the words of the song so that you
will know what emotions to promote when playing
the piece. Have fun with the studies and exploit
different tone colours and dynamics.
Be larger than life with your playing and
exaggerate effects so that changes in dynamics can
be easily heard at the back of the recital hall. Try to
keep notes ringing on when possible – do not kill a
bass line too early for example. Conversely ensure
that when the music indicates a rest there is absolute
silence – the rest is required for the music and is not
an opportunity for you to take a quick breather!
Ensure your right arm sits on the peak of the guitar
body and not in the valley. If the right arm is not in
the correct position then the fingers can overstretch
in order to reach the required notes.
Helen advised playing pieces very slowly so
that you do not rely on muscle memory and as such
be constantly on autopilot. This will help when
under stress. Speed can easily be achieved once the
piece has been mastered slowly. When moving up
the fretboard, do not follow the fingers with your
eyes as you may finish up at the wrong fret. Rather,
focus the eye on the target fret in advance so that
when this is reached you know you must not move
any further.
Mark Ashford (adults)
Mark is also well known to the club as both
an adjudicator and performer. He is currently Head
of Guitar at the Birmingham Conservatoire of
Music. He has a wealth of experience in teaching
guitar to both children and adults.
Mark was very complimentary of the
ensemble playing. This is something to be
encouraged and prevents guitarists becoming shy
closet players. Playing in an ensemble will improve
your sense of timing and encourage you to listen to
other parts and hopefully make you realise when
you have the melody line which should be
projected. Mark sympathised that we all play better
at home than we do on stage. The cure for this is not
to try to imagine that you are at home when
performing on stage, but rather to reverse the
situation. When you practice at home try to imagine
you are performing on stage. Try to visualise
yourself on stage with the chandeliers overhead and
the table of trophies and imagine that you are
playing to the audience and the adjudicator.
Mark advised against making any negative
comments or giving off any negative vibrations
when performing. Always be positive in all that you
do. Mark was surprised that even some quite
advanced performers were not always alternating
the fingers of the right hand. This hopping rather
than walking the fingers is the source of many a
trip-up and time should be spent to fix the problem.
Mark warned against hiding behind your music. An
audience likes to see what is going on – hence in a
piano recital everyone tries to sit on the left hand
side of the hall where they can see the pianists
fingers. Therefore, if you require music, try to
position it to one side and keep it low and near to
horizontal so that it does not act as a shield and
obscure your hands from the audience.
One highlight of the Festival was the final 2
hour recital class which featured some advanced
players from the Royal College of Music (Sam
Brown’s compatriots). We saw some supreme
playing from all the entrants here.
Many thanks to everyone who helped out at
the festivals – Julie Insull, Debbie Burford,
Maureen Burgen, Judith Ratledge, Julian Bobak,
Moyria & Terry Woodgate. Thanks also to Sasha
and Nina who always work so hard both behind the
scenes preparing for the events and who multitask
so many jobs on the day. Thanks also to our
teachers, the performers who took part and of
course the adjudicators. There is no doubt everyone
comes away much wiser after the events and
standards continue to improve year on year.
TW
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Chi Fest 2015 Under 18 1st 2nd
650 Novice under 9 Hazel Swain
650a Beginner under 9 Jude Raza Rory Stretch/Luke Skinner
651 Novice age 10-12 Marta O’Sullivan Ksenia Kagarova/Alexandra Shergold
652 Guitar Solo Novice age Mia Graham Zak Williams/Reina Sugitani
653 Solo under 12 to grade IV Barnaby Griffiths Denison Grimwood
653a Solo under 12 grade IV+ Edward Sweet Joseph Whitfield
654 Family Ensemble Charlie & Helen Phillips
655 Solo I age 12-15 Taraneh Schaeper Charlie Elliott
657 Bach 18 & under Charlie Phillips Rebecca Allday
658 Solo under 18 Amy Deller
659 Novice Duet The Westlake Duo
660 Duet 13 –15 Taraneh Schaeper & Charlie Phillips
James Mascord & Jack Lomax
661 Duet under 18 Zoe Barnett & Victor Smith
662 Trio or Quartet under 13 Westbourne House Trio
663 Guitar Trio/Quartet Rikkyo Trio
664 Small Guitar Orchestra WSMT Elementary Guitars Central Guitars Ensemble
664a Advanced Ensemble WSM Youth Guitars WSM Intermediate Guitars
665b Acc song under 18 Jacob Loveman
666a Int Recital 12—15 Sam Delaney-Stone Rebecca Allday/Jack Lomax
667 Adv Recital under 18 Patrick Sowden Lucy Haynes
668 Tech Perf under12 Dennison Grimwood Edward Sweet
668a Tech Perf 12-15 Henry Wells Rebecca Allday
668b Tech Perf under 18 Victor Smith
Chi Fest 2015 18+ 1st 2nd
670 Solo Novice Christine Daniel Harri Goldsmith/Andrew Wooder
671 Solo Int I Euan Stretch
671a Solo Int II Freya Lyons Peter Russell
672 Intermediate Duo Diana Green & Pam Fereday
673 Advanced Duet Steve Higgs & Richard Prior
674a Fretted Instrument Quintessential Quintet Cai & David Duo
675 Trio/Quartet Gala Trio
676 Guitar Orchestra Regis Guitars Sweet Guitars
677 Solo Open Richard Prior
678 Bach Open Sam Brown
679 Recital Open Jonaton Bougt Alex Heart
681 Flamenco Peter Russell
682 Arrangers Class Debbie Burford
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Mark with adult Duo Class Regis & Sweet Guitar Orchestras
Helen with pupils from Rikyyo
Charlie Philips accompanied by mum Helen Helen Sanderson with under 18 Recital Class
Helen with Solo Class age 12-15
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Lorenzo Micheli Concert
T he WSGC was very pleased to welcome the
second Italian guitarist to our stage this
season – Lorenzo Micheli. Lorenzo last
visited us in May 2008 when teamed with Matteo
Mela as the amazing Solo Duo. Back then, as well
as admiring their superb playing, I also admired
their stamina since they left home at 4:00am on the
Saturday to come and play just for us and on the
Sunday morning they caught the early 7:00am train
from Littlehampton to Gatwick since Lorenzo was
giving a solo guitar concert in Bulgaria on the
Sunday evening. This time was not quite so hectic
for Lorenzo since he arrived on the Thursday and
gave a concert at the Birmingham Conservatoire
later that day and then played for the Dorset Guitar
Society on the Friday. On Saturday morning
Lorenzo gave four master classes to members and
of course played for us all on the Saturday evening.
Sunday he had to catch the 9:00am train to Gatwick
and home. It was still quite an exhausting schedule.
We were pleased to welcome the Mayor and
Mayoress of Bognor Regis—Tony and Sandra
Gardiner to our audience for what was his last
appearance in that official capacity, but we hope
they will be able to come along to future concerts.
We also welcomed renowned guitarist Amanda
Cook and her parents to the recital.
Lorenzo has won many prestigious guitar
competitions and has given over 600 concerts in
Europe and 200 in the US and has played world
wide. Lorenzo lives in Milan and teaches at
University School of Music at Lugano Switzerland.
We were therefore very privileged to welcome such
a prestigious performer to our stage.
On the Saturday morning, Lorenzo gave four
generous hour long master classes to some club
members. Unfortunately this event was not too well
attended. There is always so much that can be
gained by both audience and participants. However,
the session did improve the musical interpretations
of those in the hot seat — Linda Kelsall-Barnett,
Richard Prior, Sam Brown and Ioannis Theodoridis.
According to their comments everyone had a most
productive and inspiring time with Lorenzo, who
showed great knowledge of repertoire and
wonderful experience and skills as a teacher! .
For the concert in the evening, with the
exception of some Paganini, the concert consisted
of pieces by 20th Century composers. I have to
confess, all were new to me. Lorenzo was very good
in explaining about the pieces he was playing and
about the composers. We heard six Caprichos de
Goya and a Rondo op 129 by Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Lorenzo explained that the composer was a very
popular pianist and composer in the 1930s but was
also a very prominent guitarist. Because of
persecution by Mussolini’s government, he
emigrated to New York and then moved on to Los
Angeles where he composed a number of successful
film scores. He was a close friend of Segovia for
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whom he wrote a number of compositions.
When Lorenzo played the Suite Mistica by
Ascensio and the Tedesco Rondo, we could see the
well disciplined fingers of the young maestro
running across the fingerboard with amazing
dexterity and producing seamless legatos.
Apparently the Rondo 129 was a personal favourite
of Tedesco.
After the interval, Lorenzo played Three
Sonatas by Paganini. Although renowned as a
virtuoso violinist and composer, Lorenzo explained
that Paganini gave up the violin in 1801 for a period
of three years and took up the guitar. The reason for
this was thought to curry favour with a lady friend
who was a guitarist. In those three years, Paganini
composed an incredible 37 sonatas for the guitar
and we were privileged to hear just three of them.
The other composer who featured in the
concert was Tansman and Lorenzo played his
Homage a Chopin written in 1966. Lorenzo
explained that there were many similarities between
Tansman and Tedesco. Tansman was a
contemporary and also popular pianist at around the
same time. He was Polish, but moved to Paris where
he befriended Ravel and eventually became a
French citizen. This romantic homage was written
for Segovia.
The very enthusiastic audience were
delighted when Lorenzo played two encores – The
movement Geppetto from the Pinocchio Suite by
Fiorenze Carpi and Capriccio op20 no 7 by Luigi
Legnani. Wonderful pieces to end such a
spectacular concert. The final Capriccio was played
incredibly fast yet again with seamless legatos. We
must hope that it is not another seven years before
Lorenzo visits us again.
TW
Lorenzo meets the Mayor & Mayoress Lorenzo with Amanda Cook & Sasha
Lorenzo meets Debbie Burford Lorenzo with Linda & Zoe
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Town Flowers wonderful Italian Display
THE MAN IN A HAT. Members will probably have
met guitar aficionado Johnny Couper who attends
many of our events. This is a watercolour captured
on canvas by our talented artist member John White.
Sam Brown Concerts
T ime passes very quickly indeed. Sam Brown
is now in his final year at the Royal College
of Music and shortly gives his finals concert
there. He has many forthcoming concerts lined up.
For more details see his website diary at
www.sambrownguitar.com. The following local
concerts may be of interest to members:
05/06/15 Recital Hall of the Royal College of
Music, Prince Consort Road, London, 1:30pm.
FINAL RECITAL: To include works by Schubert,
Dowland, Britten and Villa-Lobos
14/06/15 The Regis School of Music, 7:30pm
Opening event of the Regis School of Music
Festival: the music of Franz Schubert, with Duncan
Appleby, piano
20/06/15 The Regis School of Music, 7:30pm
Handover performance: Sam is donating his Pablo
Requena guitar to the Regis School of Music
27/06/15 St John's Chapel, Chichester 7:30pm
Performance with the West Sussex Guitar Club, as
part of The Festival of Chichester—The Art of the
Spanish Guitar.
12/07/15 University Chapel Chichester, 7:30pm
Performance of Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez,
with Chichester Symphony Orchestra
17/07/15 St Mary's Sennicotts, Chapel Lane, nr
Chichester, 7pm
Song recital with Nancy Cole, soprano, on behalf of
the Chichester Festival.
28/08/15 Selsey Arts Centre, Manor Road, 7:30pm
Performance with the West Sussex Guitar Club, as
part of Selsey Arts Festival
Sam Brown has a lesson with Lorenzo
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programme we knew we were in for a treat with
such a list of prestigious composers. The guitar
solos included the waltz Maria Carolina by Lauro
(named after his effervescent granddaughter), The
Cuban landscape with (cow) Bells by Brouwer and
Preludio de Adios by Montes and Magic Serenade
by the US composer Bryan Johanson. This
represented the landscapes of Oregon
We heard some wonderful Piazzolla duets –
Café 1930 and Bordel 1900. Piazzolla also
composed the five romantic solos for guitar which
Adam played (the only guitar solos that Piazzolla
wrote). Adam explained that these mirrored the five
bagatelles for guitar by Walton. We heard a truly
rhythmic Habanera by Ravel and a charming
version of Estrellita by the Mexican composer
Ponce. There were three pieces by de Falla from his
Seven Popular Spanish Songs. The three pieces
played represented Moorish cloth, a gentle lullaby
(with the oboe muted with a tissue and subtle guitar
harmonic ringing out) and finally a song of
unrequited love.
It is difficult to have a favourite piece when
surrounded by such wonderful music. However if
pressed, the choice would have to be Entr’act by the
French composer Jacques Ibert — a very fast
Moorish sounding piece which gave poor Stephanie
very little time to draw breath as she produced such
rapid notes at the speed of a machine gun. The duo
concluded the concert with three pieces by the
Brazilian composer Celso Machado and a fourth
piece was played as an encore. The pieces were
named after sweets – Candyfloss, Jawbreaker
(Gobstopper) etc. The Machado pieces were of
great interest to guitarist members of the audience
since some were played by ensemble groups. Two
of the pieces had a beautiful bossa nova lilt to them.
This was a most enjoyable start to the New
Year and we hope the duet will be able to come
back to us in the future. TW
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Oatridge/Brown Duo Concert...
Stephanie & Adam The Duo with Richard Prior
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Jun 27th Festival of Chi at St John’s Chapel
Jul 3rd Festival of Chi at RSM (Fri)
Jul 18th Summer Party Theme:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Aug 28th WSGC at Selsey Centre (Fri)
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Oatridge/Brown Duo Concert
O ur first concert for 2015 got the year off
to a cracking start as we welcomed the
Oatridge/Brown Duo to our stage. We
have had various duos perform for us before, but
never a guitar and oboe duo. The two instruments
complement each other and go really well together
especially when played by such talented
performers.
Stephanie Oatridge has a distinction for her
Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy of
Music.. She plays the full range of oboe
instruments from the Baroque period onwards.
Adam Brown studied guitar at the Royal College
of Music followed by post graduate studies at the
Juilliard School in New York. The duo played a
range of wonderful light music including some
Iberian songs and Latin American music which
evoked 1930s cafe culture.
The concert consisted largely of guitar/oboe
duets interspersed with guitar solos. Looking at the
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May 30th Club Evening with Dorset Guitars
Note: 7:00pm start
Jun 6th Marten Falk concert
Jun 14th - July 12th RSM Summer Festival